Apostle's Cove by William Kent Krueger

 

My thoughts

This is an author I am always happy to read. I've read a few of his books but this is my second Cork O'Connor and I intend to get through them all. Krueger is my favorite male author. His books are inspiring and so realistic. Make you think about things...

This is the latest O'Connor book and to me his best yet. Of course I do have a few to read, but still...

You meet Cork and his family. His time being a cop. His guilt over possibly sending an innocent man to prison. I have to admit it seems he did everything in his power to not do it. He truly didn't believe he was guilty. But a confession is a confession. 

This one deals with a woman being murdered in her home. Chastity was brutally murdered. Her mother was at the scene and had a knife in her hands. Her husband was missing. Her baby girl was screaming in another room. Aphrodite, Chastity's mother, was in shock. But could it be her that had done this? Or was it the missing husband? Or could this have been a stranger's doing?

This book is very good. I didn't figure out who the killer was and I do usually have it or a pretty good idea who. The descriptions are beautiful and as usual Krueger did an excellent job of pulling me right in. I didn't want to put this one down and read in from one night to the next. It's that good.

There are several characters but it's easy to keep them separated. Hints to child abuse and or sexual abuse to a child by a parent or parents. 

Thank you Atria Books for this ARC.

Five big stars. 

About

The New York Times bestselling Cork O’Connor Mystery series—a “master class in suspense and atmospheric storytelling” (The Real Book Spy)—continues with Cork O’Connor revisiting a case from his past and confronting mysterious deaths in the present.

A few nights before Halloween, as Cork O’Connor gloomily ruminates on his upcoming birthday, he receives a call from his son, Stephen, who is working for a nonprofit dedicated to securing freedom for unjustly incarcerated inmates. Stephen tells his father that decades ago, as the newly elected sheriff of Tamarack County, Cork was responsible for sending an Ojibwe man named Axel Boshey to prison for a brutal murder that Stephen is certain he did not commit.

Cork feels compelled to reinvestigate the crime, but that is easier said than done. Not only is it a closed case but Axel Boshey is, inexplicably, refusing to help. The deeper Cork digs, the clearer it becomes that there are those in Tamarack County who are willing once again to commit murder to keep him from finding the truth.

At the same time, Cork’s seven-year-old grandson has his own theory about the the Windigo, that mythic cannibal ogre, has come to Tamarack County…and it won’t leave until it has sated its hunger for human blood.